Molle v. Kewaskum Mutual Fire Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Door county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a married man, his wife residing with him, carried on a small jewelry, bicycle, and gun store at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and also a repair shop for such articles containing the tools of his trade.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Door county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a married man, his wife residing with him, carried on a small jewelry, bicycle, and gun store at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and also a repair shop for such articles containing the tools of his trade. On July 13, 1905, he took out a policy of insurance for $250 on the personal property in said building, described as a stock of .bicycles, tools for the same, work bench, and all hand tools pertaining to bicycles and gun repairs, and included additional insurance, by an amendment, on typewriter…
1Opinion of the CourtDougb, J.
The decision of this case by the circuit court is sought to be supported by citation of Fowler v. Hunt, 48 Wis. 345, 4 N. W. 481, where wras presented a chattel mortgage describing the “entire stock in trade and fixtures of the said . . . consisting of clocks, watches, chains, show cases, jewelry, and all goods included in his stock, tools and material, excepting one safe, one regulator, one astronomical clock, two musical clocks, and stoch in trade to the amount of $£00.” It was ruled that this description was tantamount merely to a conveyance of all the generally described prop*406erty otter…
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